Garnering an audience of more than 15 million listeners each week, Rush Limbaugh transformed talk radio, becoming an indispensable voice for conservatives.
Legendary conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh died of lung cancer at age 70, his family announced Wednesday. Garnering an audience of more than 15 million listeners each week, Limbaugh transformed talk radio as a titan of the industry, becoming an indispensable voice of the conservative movement. In 2015, Limbaugh was one of few voices on the right to take President Donald Trump’s candidacy seriously in the beginning, helping to catapult Trump’s rise from a reality television New York businessman all the way to the White House.
